Comparison

Librivox vs Iliad Aligned

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Librivox

Access over 7,000 human-read audiobooks, with synchronized text for read-along functionality. Browse by narrator and enjoy a polished reading experience with full remote control. This paid version offers an ad-free, no-purchase-required experience.

Highlights
  • 7000+ human-read audiobooks
  • Synchronized audio and text
  • Browse by reader
  • Full remote control
  • Sophisticated book reader
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Live, with last-minute updates, from LibriVox's database. 7000+ human-read audiobooks. Free! Including audiobooks that have been painstakingly cut, edited and marketing statements removed. This PAID version requires no additional purchase. Read-along: Audio and Text are synchronized. You can read, listen, or read-Along, and switch between them at will. Have Favorite Readers? Browse by reader's name. Find all books narrated by your favorite readers. Relax to enjoy a story: Full remote control through headset. Finish an entire book with your device safely in your pocket. In the mood to read a bit? Text is presented by a sophisticated book reader: beautiful presentation, graceful page turning. * This PAID version has No in-app purchase, absolutely no additional purchase required, No ad display. For a FREE version please download our "LibriVox Free Audiobooks". Both apps have the same contents.

About

Iliad Aligned

Explore Homer's Iliad with parallel text in Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, and English. Tap any word for instant morphology and dictionary definitions. Features include read-aloud pronunciation, bookmarking, and offline access.

Highlights
  • Parallel text display
  • Tap-to-define word lookup
  • Classical Greek pronunciation audio
  • Bookmarking and note-taking
  • Full offline functionality
  • Search across texts and dictionary
Features
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Iliad Aligned presents Homer's Iliad in three parallel columns: Ancient Greek, Modern Greek (Polylas, newly revised), and English (Murray, newly revised). Every Ancient Greek word (and almost every Modern Greek / English word) is tappable for instant morphology and dictionary lookup. Features: • Read-aloud in reconstructed Classical Greek pronunciation, with a neural text-to-speech voice trained for polytonic Greek • Tap any Ancient Greek word to see its lemma, part of speech, full morphological parse, Cunliffe (Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect), and LSJ (Liddell-Scott-Jones) entries • Bookmark passages and attach your own notes • Search across Ancient Greek lines, English translation, and dictionary headwords Iliad Aligned is built for students, readers, and classicists who want to stay close to the original while keeping Modern Greek and English at hand. It works fully offline after the first launch. No account, no ads, no tracking. Text sources: Morphology from the Perseus Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank. Murray and Polylas translations are public-domain editions, revised for clarity and line-by-line parallelism.

Screenshots

Librivox4 screens
Iliad Aligned4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Iliad Aligned at Free against Librivox's $2.99. Iliad Aligned also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Librivox's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Iliad Aligned is free to download; Librivox costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Librivox ships an update every 2 months, Iliad Aligned every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Librivox versus Iliad Aligned: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLibrivoxIliad Aligned
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB112 MB
Age rating12+9+
Developerhimalaya-softMotomatic LLC

In-app purchases

None

Librivox

No in-app purchases

None

Iliad Aligned

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Librivox free?
Librivox costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Iliad Aligned free?
Iliad Aligned is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Librivox or Iliad Aligned have ads?
Neither Librivox nor Iliad Aligned shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Librivox or Iliad Aligned?
Librivox ships an update every 2 months, and Iliad Aligned every 3 weeks. Most recently, Librivox was updated on November 1, 2026 and Iliad Aligned on October 25, 2026.

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